Higher education is expected to be inclusive, student-centered, responsive and connected   Higher education plays a crucial role in individual empowerment, community development, societal progress and global cohesion   Issues relating to access and inclusion were the most frequently mentioned, representing 30% of the total responses to the consultation’s questions on higher education  As more people graduate from higher education, sustainable development will ...

In higher education institutions, indigenous and Afro-descendant students not only face obstacles related to their socioeconomic situation but also to their linguistic differences and educational disadvantages. The latter are originated from the lack of opportunities to receive a better quality of primary and secondary education, especially in rural communities, said Daniel Mato, Director of UNESCO ...

The webinar Racism in the Academy: Global perspectives on multiple forms of racism and struggles for equity revealed how higher education systems legitimate and reproduce racism while simultaneously attempting to challenge and overcome it. Professor Daniel Mato (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina) and Professor Rajani Naidoo (University of Bath, UK), two leading scholars of higher ...

As part of the events prior to the 3rd UNESCO World Higher Education Conference that will take place in Barcelona from May 18 to 20, 2022, UNESCO IESALC will carry out a consultation for Latin America and the Caribbean that will collect the voices of the different groups of interest related to higher education (HEI leaders, academics, students, governments, ...